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The Day the World Changed Friday, July 04, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Internet   
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"The NSFNET Backbone has reached a state where we would like to more officially let operational traffic on". Twenty years ago, a network engineer named Hans-Werner Braun started an e-mail message to the users of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) fledgling NSFNET project with that sentence to announce that the network's main lines, or backbone, had been upgraded. Although they received little notice at the time, those simple words announced the birth of the modern Internet. (source: nsf.gov)
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